Sandra Markle - Animals to the Rescue!: Amazing True Stories from Around the World

SANDRA MARKLE

Millbrook Press | Minneapolis

For Library Media Specialist
Jill Merkle and the students
at Greensview Elementary in
Columbus, Ohio

The author would like to thank the following people for sharing their enthusiasm and expertise: Ian Fitzgibbon, Manager City Council,
Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia; Dr. Jon Hanger, Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, Beerwah, Queensland, Australia; Dr. Nan
Hauser, Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation/Cook Islands Whale Research Project, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Teresa
MacPherson, FEMA Canine Work Group, Severna Park, Maryland; Fire Captain William Monahan, Los Angeles County Fire Department,
Urban Search and Rescue, Fire Station 136, Palmdale, California; Lente Roode, Founder, Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre, Hoedspruit,
South Africa; Carolin Scheiter, IROInternationale Rettungshunde Organisation/International Search and Rescue Dog Organisation,
Salzburg, Austria; Audrey Stone (Figo owner), Brewster, New York; Dr. Christopher Stremme, DVM, Faculty Syiah Kuala University, Banda
Aceh, Indonesia; Roger Triantafilo, Castle Rock, Colorado; Dr. Anne Wallis, Deakin University, Warrnambool Campus, Victoria, Australia; Bart
Weetjens, founder of APOPO, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia; and David Williams, environmental scientist and conservation guardian dog
trainer, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia.

A special thank-you to Skip Jeffery for his loving support
during the creative process.

Text copyright 2022 by Sandra Markle

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Markle, Sandra, author.
Title: Animals to the rescue! : amazing true stories from around the
world / Sandra Markle.
Description: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press , [2022] | Series: Sandra
Markles science discoveries | Includes bibliographical references
and index. | Audience: Ages 814 | Audience: Grades 46 |
Summary: Did you know that rats can be heroes? So can a
humpback whale! Discover incredible true stories about animals
that have rescued humansand other animalsin a book sure
to appeal to animal lovers everywhere Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020049136 (print) | LCCN 2020049137 (ebook)
| ISBN 9781541581227 (library binding) | ISBN 9781728419077
(ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Animal heroesAnecdotesJuvenile literature. |
AnimalsAnecdotesJuvenile literature.
Classification: LCC QL791 .M344 2022 (print) | LCC QL791 (ebook) |
DDC 590dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049136
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049137

Manufactured in the United States of America
1-47321-47948-4/14/2021

CONTENTS

HERE COME
THE HEROES!

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Theyre not just
people who help others, like firefighters, teachers, and nurses. And
theyre not always human . No one knows when a natural disaster will
strike or lives will be threatened. Sometimes in an emergency, an animal
comes to the rescue. It may be an animal trained to use its special abilities
to save people. Or it may be an animal responding courageously or doing
what it naturally does, which happens to save a life. Sometimes animals
even rescue other animals! Keep reading to discover the stories of some
real-life animal heroes and the lives they saved.